RESISTANCE REPORT : 7 JANUARY 2008

Publié le
23 février 2008

Resistance report for events of monday 7 january 2008 :

Four collaborator "awakening" police killed in bomb attack in al-BaghdadiIn a dispatch posted at 8:22pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a checkpoint manned by collaborationist “Awakening” police in the city of al-Baghdadi, 200km west of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that four collaborator “Awakening” policemen were killed and three more of them wounded in the attack.

Collaborator "awakening" police captured, taken away from checkpoint in northern Bagdad monday eveningIn a dispatch posted at 9:10pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men captured eight or ten collaborator members of the “Awakening” police in northeastern Baghdad on Monday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police as saying that armed men in five unmarked cars abducted the collaborators on Monday evening from the checkpoint in the north Baghdad district of ash-Sha‘b.

In a dispatch posted at 7:55pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi puppet police recovered the bodies of seven more victims of sectarian murder that had been dumped in various parts of Baghdad in the previous 24 hours.

Yaqen reported a puppet police source as saying that four of the bodies were found in Baghdad’s al-Karakh side and three in ar-Rusafah.

The Shi‘i sectarian militias are pressing ahead with sectarian abductions, torture, and murder of Sunnis in an effort to “cleanse” Baghdad and vast swaths of Iraqi territory to the south and east of Sunnis. The bloody sectarian campaign is aimed at implementation of plans to partition Iraq drawn up by Zionist and American think tanks.

The idea of “the dissolution of Iraq into a Shi‘ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” was voiced by veteran Zionist military correspondent Ze’ev Schiff in Ha'aretz on2 June 1982 and was a part of the divide-and-rule strategy laid out by Zionist writer Oded Yinon in his “Strategy for Israel in the 1980s,” published in Kivunim (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism, published by the World Zionist Organization in occupied Jerusalem in February 1982. (It was translated by the late anti-Zionist writer and activist Israel Shahak and is widely available.)

The idea of splitting the Shi‘ah in Iraq from the rest of the country was a cornerstone of the neo-Conservative strategy laid out in “A Clean Break” a paper drawn up by American Zionist government officials Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and Paul Wolfowitz in 1996 for the then Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then in 2000 the neo-Conservative Project for a New American Century wrote Rebuilding America’s Defenses on the basis of the “Clean Break.”

The American version of the strategy for a partition of Iraq appeared in the article “The Three-State Solution” published in The New York Times on 25 November 2003 by Leslie Gelb (President Emeritus of the US Council on Foreign Relations). The same idea was reiterated, this time with “bi-partisan support” in the article by Gelb and US Democratic Senator Joseph Biden in “Unity through Autonomy in Iraq,” in The New York Times on 1 May 2006.

Then on 8 October 2006 the London Sunday Times reported that the partition of Iraq along religious and ethnic lines was one of the suggestions that the Baker-Hamilton commission was advancing.

US troops ransack kindergarten in Madinat as-Sadr in Bagdad mondayIn a dispatch posted at 5:17pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops raided and ransacked a kindergarten in the Madinat as-Sadr section of Baghdad on Monday.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported the puppet Ministry of Education as announcing that the rampaging Americans arrested three of the guards at the Rawdat al-Kanari kindergarten during their raid. The US occupation forces offered no explanation for their actions.

The puppet Ministry announced that the Americans broke down doors and windows and the secondary roof in the kindergarten and smashed children’s toys. The Ministry called for a halt in such arbitrary US actions, noting that the Americans never found anything that would suggest that the kindergarten had any ties with “terrorist activity.”

US troops raid home of religious shaykh in Bagdad, steal money, phones, smash furnitureIn a dispatch posted at 5:34pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that US troops raided the home of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ilah ‘Abd al-Mun‘im al-Hiti, the Imam of the Muhammad Rasul Allah Mosque in the al-Jihad neighborhood of Baghdad.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that the Americans arrested three of al-Hiti’s sons and stole money intended for orphans and families of modest means in the area. The US troops also stole mobile phones and computers in the Shaykh’s house in addition to breaking all the doors and furniture in the home.

Then, after coming out of the Shaykh’s house, the Americans raided neighboring houses where they arrested seven more people after breaking down doors and smashing windows and furniture there as well.

Two bomb attacks in southern Bagdad kill threeIn a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:26pm Monday night Beijing time (2:26pm Baghdad time), the Xinhua News Agency reported that three people had been killed and 19 more of them wounded in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad.

Xinhua reported a source in the puppet police as saying that one bomb exploded in a small food cart on as-Sina‘iyah Street in southern Baghdad at noon on Monday. The blast killed three people and wounded 16 more of them in varying degrees of severity. Several nearby buildings were also damaged in that attack.

The source added that a second bomb went off by a puppet police patrol on al-Husayn Square in southern Baghdad, wounding two policemen and one civilian. All were taken away in a patrol car to obtain treatment.

Commander of collaborator "awakening" police in al-Azamiyah district of Bagdad killed with nine others in car bomb attack mondayIn a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:21pm Monday night Beijing time (2:21pm Baghdad time), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a man wearing an explosive belt walked to the entrance to the headquarters of the collaborator “Awakening” police in the Baghdad district of al-A‘zamiyah and blew himself up Monday morning. Then, after a crowd gathered, a man driving an explosives-packed car followed up by blasting into the area.

In a dispatch posted at 12:45pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the first bomber struck the headquarters of the Sunni Waqf (pious endowment) offices (where the “Awakening” collaborator police have their offices) at 11 am local time Monday morning. The Waqf Council office is located in the Sab‘ Abkar area of al-A‘zamiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 7:38pm Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency reported that the double bombing had killed 14 people and wounded 26 more.

A source told Xinhua that Colonel Riyad as-Samarra’i, the commander of the al-A‘zamiyah “Awakening” collaborator police, was killed in the attack along with his son and five of his bodyguards. Also killed was the security official working for the Sunni Waqf Council.

Car bomber kills two collaborator "awakening" policemen in checkpoint attack in northern BagdadIn a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:42pm Monday afternoon Beijing time (12:42pm Baghdad time), the Xinhua News Agency reported that an attacker in an explosives-packed car blew up by a checkpoint manned by tribal collaborator “Awakening” police in northern Baghdad.

Xinhua reported a source in the puppet police as saying that the attack in the northern Baghdad district of al-Ibkar, killed two “Awakening” collaborators and wounded four more of them. Ambulances evacuated the wounded to a hospital.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Karakh Health Department as saying that the American troops smashed down the doors and broke out the windows when they raided the al-Karakh Health Department office on ‘Adan Square. They also ransacked property in the headquarters during the raid. The official offered no further details about the American attack.

US admits death of american soldier in southern Bagdad sunday nightIn a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:07pm Monday afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had admitted the death of one more of its soldiers in Iraq.

Xinhua reported a US announcement as saying that a bomb exploded near a US patrol to the south of Baghdad, killing one American soldier on Sunday night. In keeping with the US policy of concealing facts regarding America losses in Iraq, the US statement provided no further details on the attack.

Oil refinery in Bayji engulfed in huge fire monday afternoonIn a dispatch posted at 8:12pm Baghdad time Monday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that one person was killed and 15 more injured when a massive fire broke out at the Bayji oil refinery, 200km north of Baghdad, on Monday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police command as saying that immediate appeals for assistance went out from the puppet “Civil Defense” forces responsible for fighting fires at the refinery. The fire erupted in the section of the refinery where benzene and liquid gas are processed.

The source said that the blaze was so intense, however, and spread so quickly, that the fire trucks arriving on the scene were unable to approach the fire. Shortly before the time of reporting, however, firefighters had begun to battle the blaze.

Bomb destroys US humvee, wounds american tropps in ash-SharuqatIn a dispatch posted at 10:15am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US patrol near the city of ash-Sharuqat, 250km north of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the blast destroyed an American Humvee and wounded several US soldiers. The sources told Yaqen that US ambulances raced to the scene to evacuate the injured men.

Two US troops reported killed by iraqi sharpshooter in TikritIn a dispatch posted at 10am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that two US troops were shot and killed by a sharpshooter in the az-Zuhur neighborhood of central Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that the two Americans were taking part in a foot patrol on a public street when the sharpshooter opened fire. After the attack, the US troops surrounded the area and began searches throughout the area.

Bomber in explosive belt kills puppet police, "awakening" collaborators in Ba'qubahIn a dispatch posted at 11:38am Baghdad time Monday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a person wearing an explosive belt blew himself up amidst a force of puppet policemen and collaborator “Awakening” police in Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police who asked not to be identified as saying that several puppet policemen and “Awakening” collaborators were killed or wounded in the blast, but that the exact number was not yet known.

Puppet police official's car bombed in al-Mawsil monday In a dispatch posted at 1:35pm Baghdad time Monday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded under the car of Colonel Mu’ayyad Muhammad of the puppet police directorate in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Monday.

Yaqen reported Brigadier General ‘Abd al-Karim, director of the puppet police operations center in Ninwa Province, as saying that the bomb went off under Muhammad’s car in the Bab Lakash area of the city, burning the car completely and inflictin material damage to nearby houses.